Example sentences of "number of [noun] over the year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mill had a number of owners over the years , its major business starting when , by the 1860s , it was taken over by Reece and Sandford . |
| 2 | We have however entered a large number of competitions over the years : the FA Cup , FA Vase , County Shield , Debenhams Floodlit Cup and the Sherpa Tensing Van Trophy to name but a few . |
| 3 | However , since there are more rape trials today than before , the reader of newspapers would find an increase in the number of reports over the years . |
| 4 | But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects . |
| 5 | They had a number of fires over the years at 's Mill , er and one was in eighteen sixty six or sixty seven . |
| 6 | The implications for my daughter 's safety and security , and and mine and the rest of my family 's , because there have been a number of occasions over the years when I 've had to turn to the police because of my anxiety about that when there 's been a lot of attention from the media and when the press have published our address and so on erm and we 've had I 've had specific death threats particularly against my daughter on one occasion . |
| 7 | The deaths in police custody of a number of detainees over the years have also been controversial . |